Si quando significabimus nos scommate seu contumelia leviter commoveri nec altius in animum demittere, congruet illud ex Iliados eodem libro quarto :
id estΟὐκ ἐν καιρίῳ ὀξὺ πάγη βέλος, ἀλλὰ πάροιθεν
Εἰρύσατο ζωστήρ τε παναίολος, ἡ δ᾿ ὑπένερθεν
Ζῶμά τε καὶ μίτρη, τὴν χαλκῆες κάμον ἄνδρες,
Lamineae squamae, quas huic faber addidit, aere.At missum non transiit ad vitalia telum,
Sed summa in cute balteus arcuit impositoque